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  • January 13, 2010 at 11:43 pm #106384
    Ned Flanders
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    It shouldn’t even be a damn animals nams as its a sketch of a man that Mike Mathews friend drew! 😆

    January 14, 2010 at 1:19 am #106388
    electro-melx
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    It shouldn’t even be a damn animals nams as its a sketch of a man that Mike Mathews friend drew! 😆

    yeah, it should be ‘man’s head’

    …there was one on ebay the guy called ‘monkey’s face’ ………I guess a monkey is closer to man than a sheep. :)

    January 14, 2010 at 8:47 am #106394
    Ned Flanders
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    Well at least monkeys share a recent ancestor with homo sapiens! 😆

    The same can be said of sheep and rams too I ‘spose if you go back to the primordial slime we come from! 😆

    January 14, 2010 at 6:08 pm #106408
    Kitrae
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    I always though it looked more like a hippie elf, but Hippie Elf Big Muff just does not have that great a ring to it.

    Like it or not, Ram’s Head seems to have become the most common nick name for the V2.

    January 14, 2010 at 9:22 pm #106417
    Ned Flanders
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    Some people make a thing of it to call it a “lambs head muff”. Whats the difference….ram – lamb, both are 100% incorrect! 😆

    I just call them ramshead muffs as that’s the nickname they have acquired.

    BTW, the only ramshead muffs I like are V2’s (v2 ramshead) as they use 1x 10uF and 3x 1uF caps inplace of all 100nF caps (aside from the 3x 560pF/2x 47nF/1x10nF/1×3.9nF caps) and aren’t boomy and have better low end than V1’s.

    January 15, 2010 at 5:47 am #106434
    devnulljp
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    Nice Green Russian! (So, what was wrong with it in the guy wanted you to fix …?)
    The flaky paint thing is really common with those. Dave Main of DAM has one that looks like it’s been in a war.

    Oh, and r/lam‘s head? I vote we start calling it the Mike’s Head Muff — it’s his nose for sure :D

    ehxlambsmike.jpg

    January 15, 2010 at 8:31 am #106440
    Ned Flanders
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    😆

    Oh, it had a broken trace at the input jack is all.

    January 15, 2010 at 8:55 am #106441
    devnulljp
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    Oh, it had a broken trace at the input jack is all.

    Doh! facepalm.gif

    January 15, 2010 at 9:21 am #106442
    Ned Flanders
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    Yeah but you know how long it took me to find it? quite a while. it was a hairline crack hidden by solder, you couldn’t even see it until you put the iron on the jack input pad and the pad moved around. I tested the pots and switch first, then all the components as the trace looked flawless so i didn’t think there was a problem with it, I even checked the jacks and they were fine. It was only when I went to true bypass (kept the sovtek switches just disconnected the LED’s) it that I noticed the broken trace! 😆

    Anyways, it sounds great now, I have V2 ramshead value caps in it, 10k resistors off collectors for a little more gain, they were 12k. And I kept the 470pF caps in it. other than that it uses the stock parts. My other V1 green sovtek sounds like a NYC wicker muff with wicker on but with a stock tonestack, its a real cool pedal that took me over 6 months (I procrastinate and fuck around a lot) to finally be happy with the mods i done to it.

    And the latest V1 GRN sovtek is loud as man, I’ve never had such a loud muff before, not without tone bypass anyways.
    :thumb:

    January 27, 2010 at 10:06 am #106862
    Mike VD
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    I heard a rumor that probably is just a rumor. Is it true the first sovtek prototypes were constructed from recycled soviet military hardware, tanks, bombs ect?

    January 27, 2010 at 10:34 am #106863
    Ned Flanders
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    The only thing military in the first sovteks are the switches. The rest is myth.

    February 19, 2010 at 9:46 pm #107712
    remedyblue
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    Congrats on the cool muff! Those are my favorite issue of muffs–therefore I consider it heresy to mod them :) The 150k pots are stock and only came on the Green Thin Font versions (traced a bunch of them). If you have extra muff parts after your modding, please PM, and I’d buy them from you for fixing a couple that I have, plus a home build.

    You have a nice collection in that photo. Here is my collection (minus a few that I just sold):

    muffs.jpg

    Nice Civil War!

    February 19, 2010 at 11:07 pm #107714
    Ned Flanders
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    Nice find. It took me several years of trading back and forth on ebay to find a tall font green that I liked. Most were really dull and lifeless sounding. They are amongst the coolest looking of the Sovteks. I don’t think there is a meaner looking pedal. I have two, but the paint is in awful condition on mine. Yours looks intact. For some reason the early green Muffs have the most problem with the paint flaking off.

    Ya know kit out of the 3 tall font first issue green SBM’s only one has flaky paint and that’s the one in near mint condition with only a couple of scrapes where you can see its flaky. The other two I have the paint is hard as and not flaky whatsoever. They have some chips and a lot of scrapes but you can see its not flaky.

    This is the near-ish mint one with flaky paint:

    2ndGRNSOVTEK.png

    And these are the other two with really hard paint: (the darker two)

    MYBIGMUFFS1.png

    So, I dunno what the deal is…

    February 21, 2010 at 3:51 am #107735
    Kitrae
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    Ya know kit out of the 3 tall font first issue green SBM’s only one has flaky paint and that’s the one in near mint condition with only a couple of scrapes where you can see its flaky. The other two I have the paint is hard as and not flaky whatsoever. They have some chips and a lot of scrapes but you can see its not flaky.

    Good examples there. I think I went through four before I found one with good paint and good sound. They had no primer under the paint, but most of the later ones don’t seem to have it either. My first one looked like it had been through a war. I had to be careful handling it because the paint literally flaked off at the touch.

    July 17, 2016 at 7:36 pm #121736
    Jspectorlx
    Member

    I just recently picked up a Big muff tall font through Craigslist and wanted to know where I could pickup an original foot switch? It sounds great with my bass but I’m having some issues with the footswitch. I’d like to replace it with an original style footswitch if possible. Please let me know where I could find one or if anyone on the forum would like to sell one. Thanks!

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